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The Communications Decency Act: Aborting The First Amendment?, Sheryl L. Herndon L. Herndon
The Communications Decency Act: Aborting The First Amendment?, Sheryl L. Herndon L. Herndon
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
On February 8, 1996, President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law and explained that the legislation would "stimulate investment, promote competition, [and] provide open access for all citizens to the Information Superhighway." However, contrary to the goal of "opening wide the door to the Information Age," provisions of the Act violate the Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech by imposing far-reaching new federal criminal liabilities on Americans who exercise their free speech rights on the Internet. In particular, a little-noticed provision of the Act, which expands an 1873 law banning abortion-related speech by criminalizing Internet …
Free Speech & The Internet: The Inevitable Move Toward Government Regulation, James J. Black
Free Speech & The Internet: The Inevitable Move Toward Government Regulation, James J. Black
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
The explosive growth in the number of people communicating from computers around the world via the Internet ("Net") has led to the proliferation of another type of speech, namely, scholarly articles on virtually every aspect of the Net and its many influences on life in America. One topic that has received a great deal of attention is the extent to which laws applicable within the geographical territory of the United States may be applied to the freewheeling world of Cyberspace, which knows virtually no geographical limitations. Many commentators in the United States have followed one of two streams of argument: …